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Wow. Seven Seas Entertainment's box set of danmei (Chinese boys' love) novel series "The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System" has sold more than 20,000 units since release in February through September, parent company Media Do said in its mid-year earnings presentation last week.

A wave of large cyberattacks that have exposed millions of consumers' personal data at Japanese companies has spread to domestic anime and manga websites, including one of Japan's largest digital manga and e-book platforms. Read this and more headlines in this week's business briefing.

NEW 🇮🇩 Two decades on, former Free Aceh Movement leaders and their children in Sweden still reject the Helsinki peace deal. Cut Maya Aprita Sari reads their quixotic advocacy through Benedict Anderson’s “long-distance nationalism”.

NEW 🇮🇩 In Indonesia, reporting on mines, plantations and Strategic National Projects now brings the same risks activists face. Birgit Bräuchler on how environmental journalists became environmental defenders.

The debate to determine what China wants reveals a deeper epistemological divide, writes Wanning Sun.

I don't often watch at this theater

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I wish there are translations of books about manga and anime in Indonesia

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I wish there are translations of books about manga and anime in Indonesia

Japan's anime studios are reevaluating their reliance on foreign subcontract studios as outsourcing costs rise in a period of a historically weak yen, adding pressure to an already tight anime labor market at home. Read this and more headlines in this week's business briefing.